COAST GUARD CONFIRMS HOAX CALL
August 18, 2008
August 18, 2008
SEATTLE, Aug. 18 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Coast Guard, Northwest District, issued the following press release:
Coast Guard Sector Seattle received two distress calls via VHF channel 16 from a 7-year-old boy in Maple Valley, Wash., Sunday.
In the first call, received at noon, the boy stated that he was drowning. At 6 p.m. he made a second call saying his boat had a hole in it and was sinking.
The watch stander at Sector Seattl . . .
Coast Guard Sector Seattle received two distress calls via VHF channel 16 from a 7-year-old boy in Maple Valley, Wash., Sunday.
In the first call, received at noon, the boy stated that he was drowning. At 6 p.m. he made a second call saying his boat had a hole in it and was sinking.
The watch stander at Sector Seattl . . .